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hollasch
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- hollasch parentCorrected title: Nvidia is buying Groq for *two reasons imo
- It's just American custom to exclude some taxes from the posted price. Many countries include all taxes in the price, something I've always wished we would do in America. After that, I'd love to see the elimination of the custom of always ending fuel cost per gallon in 9/10 of a cent.
- This seems oddly complex to me. We have a family domain that hosts our personal email addresses. In addition, we have a "family@" address that just forwards to my wife and me. Usage is obvious to everyone, no need to explain anything. Joint emails are obvious, replies work as expected, individual emails have obvious recipients.
- If you have a problem that requires and hour or a day to compute, then spending fifteen minutes for data transfer up and down (particularly in the face of lowered costs) is often a profitable trade. Movie studio render farms are a classic example of such compute jobs. Weather or geological resource prediction could be another. There are many such high-compute jobs in practice.
- To each their own, but to me the only key easier to hit than the Escape key is the space bar, and returning to the home row is like a 20ms move. On the other hand, if you're actually using control keys in the (now standard) lower left and lower positions, then we're just on different planets. :)
- 69 points
- Seems like that would depend on your job. Are you a line cook? Actuary? Electrician, barber, power systems controls engineer, nurse, technical writer, programmer, financial advisor, program manager, creative director, level designer, wing systems engineer, welder, pilot, detective, bouncer, film editor, bartender, appliance line worker, landscaper, civil engineer, residential construction foreman, HVAC technician, … ?
- One of the most significant aspects of this issue is too often ignored. Inevitably, people focus on the _location_ aspect of this topic, and its impacts. Equally significant in my experience is the fact that my workspace at home is significantly superior to the toy office at work. Work offices have been undergoing constant degradation for decades now. Today, an "office" is too frequently a randomly-assigned tiny surface with cheap-as-possible computer & peripherals, in a loud space, from which I interact with team members over video.
Imagine being a machinist where you get barely serviceable tools at work, versus a fully-equipped custom workshop at home. For me, this isn't about Covid and recent events — it's the end state of a work environment that has seen decades of dismantling.
- 44 points
- “The most common reasons people gave for not having more children were concerns about the economic, social and climatic outlook, cited by 30% of those polled. Some 28% said raising children cost too much.”
It occurs to me that this could be the fuel for a vicious cycle in countries where the government assumes high responsibility for social care: low birth rates create a population skewed older, which requires greater taxes on younger citizens, which places them under greater financial stress, which further suppresses the decision to have (or to have more) children.
- For various reasons, I was preoccupied with three different thoughts in 2005: the Euler equation (relating vertices, edges and faces), transforming planes with 4x4 matrices, and trying to optimize ray-triangle intersection. On the way to a company meeting, I was sitting on a bus, looking out the window, watching the scenery go by while turning these three topics around in my head. These pieces (which I didn't think were really related) suddenly started fitting together, and I came up with a radically new way of testing ray intersection against an object defined by a mesh of triangles. It ended up being successful beyond my biggest hopes. Eventually got patented by Microsoft, but the patent's now expired. Still my proudest discovery.
- One significant difference is the US constitutional assertion that "certain inalienable rights" (notably the freedom to speak) are "endowed by our creator". In practice, this places such rights outside the authority of governments.
In most other countries, rights are constructed and granted at the pleasure of the government currently in power.
It's easy to overlook this philosophical difference as pedantic, but the ramifications are profound.